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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.

I'm very comfortable with uncomfortable situations, and I think that can seem odd to people, that I like the thrill of discomfort.

Donald Trump doesn't speak like a politician, and that's made some people uncomfortable. In a world of political correctness run amok, his straight talk has been a breath of fresh air.

There are always going to be some people who are uncomfortable getting any football information from a woman. And honestly, I know that's supposed to bother me, but it doesn't, really.

Empathy is an uncomfortable force in politics.

This is why I don't usually have to create uncomfortable situations, because we are anything but a typical Premier League club. We got promoted with an £11 million budget.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

Rule of law has prevailed over Obama's unconstitutional executive overreach.

NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'

But the underdog socialists' biggest problem isn't that they are wrong. They are not. Their biggest problem is that they're dull. Dull as a doorknob. They've got no story to tell; nor even the language to convey it in.

I'd rather have the underdog position than the favorite because I've been the underdog for a long time. I don't mind fighting that way.

People love sympathy, people love the underdog. For me, sympathy is not part of my drag aesthetic.

Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

A lot of people underestimate Jake Shields, but his results speak for themselves. He's tough to beat.

Bangladesh are a good side. I think people underestimate them.

I underestimated the power of 'Diego.'

I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.